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COVID-19 vaccine booster campaign increased immunity levels during record viral spread
More than 12,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Minnesota, the Health Department reports.
An explosion of COVID-19 cases in Minnesota the past two months did not produce a comparable increase in deaths, which are declining as the state emerges from consecutive pandemic waves.
The one-week average of COVID-19 deaths steadily declined from 39 per day on Dec. 2, when a fast-spreading delta coronavirus variant was dominant, to 22 per day on Feb. 11, according to Minnesota's latest COVID-19 data released Thursday. Counts of COVID-19 deaths on more recent dates are only preliminary because of the lag in verifying and reporting them, but they appear to show a continuing decline as well.
State leaders credited Minnesota's successful vaccination campaign, which has resulted in 55.6% of 3.8 million fully vaccinated people receiving booster shots against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The booster rate ranks second among the states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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